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T R C HE OUTLEDGE OMPANION S L TO EMIOTICSAND INGUISTICS ThisRoutledge Companionis the first reference resource to combine the complex and closely related fields of semiotics and linguistics. Edited by communications specialist Paul Cobley, it has ten introductory essays written by pace-setting figures in the field. These are followed by over 200 A–Z entries which cover: • key concepts such as abduction, code, grapheme, modelling, philology and syntax • key individuals: Bakhtin, Chomsky, Peirce, Saussure, Sebeok and others • key theories and schools, including American structuralism, pragmatism and the Prague School. The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics opens up the world of semiotics and linguistics for newcomers to the discipline, and provides a useful ready-reference for the more advanced student. Paul Cobley is the author of Introducing Semiotics (with Litza Jansz), The American Thrillerand the forthcoming New Critical Idiom title, Narrative. He is the editor of Routledge’s Communication Theory Reader. Paul Cobley is Reader in Communications at London Guildhall University. Routledge Companions Routledge Companionsare the perfect reference guides, providing everything the student or general reader needs to know. Authoritative and accessible, they combine the in-depth expertise of leading specialists with straightforward, jargon-free writing. In each book you’ll find what you’re looking for, clearly presented – whether through an extended article or an A–Z entry – in ways which the beginner can understand and even the expert will appreciate. 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No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Routledge companion to semiotics and linguistics / edited by Paul Cobley. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Semiotics. 2. Linguistics. I. Cobley, Paul, 1963– P121 .R692 2001 410—dc21 2001019312 ISBN 0-203-99608-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0–415–24313–0 (hbk) ISBN 0–415–24314–9 (pbk) To semiotician, linguist and, as he himself said of Peirce, that ‘incomparable polymath’, Thomas A. Sebeok and to the memory of William C. Stokoe, champion of ‘sign’and signs C ONTENTS Notes on contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii Using this book xv Part I Semiosis,communication and language 1 Introduction Paul Cobley 3 1 Nonverbal communication Thomas A. Sebeok 14 2 Charles Sanders Peirce’s concept of the sign Floyd Merrell 28 3 The origins of language William C. Stokoe 40 4 Language in the ecology of the mind Ray Jackendoff 52 5 Sociolinguistics and social semiotics Gunther Kress 66 6 Pragmatics Jef Verschueren 83 7 Language change Jean Aitchison 95 8 The Chomskyan revolutions Raphael Salkie 105 9 Linguistics after Saussure Roy Harris 118 vii CONTENTS 10 Discourse Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski 134 Part II Key themes and major figures in semiotics and linguistics 149 References 289 Index 319 viii N OTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Initials of authors who contribute to Part II appear after each entry. Jean Aitchisonis Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford. She is the author of a number of books, including (on language change) Language Change: Progress or Decay? (3rd edn) and The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution. Myrdene Anderson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Purdue University, Indianapolis. Her publications include On Semiotic Modeling,Refiguring Debris – Becoming Unbecoming, Unbecoming Becoming, andCultural Shaping of Violence(each co-edited). (MA) Edna Andrewsis Professor of Slavic Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology, and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Duke University, North Carolina. Her monographs include Lotman and the Semiotics of Culture, The Semantics of Suffixation in Russian, and Markedness Theory: The Union of Asymmetry and Semiosis in Language. (EA) Eugen Baer is Professor of Philosophy at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, USA. His publications include Semiotic Approaches to PsychotherapyandMedical Semiotics. (EB) Kristian Bankovis Lecturer in Semiotics at the New Bulgarian University and at Sofia University, Bulgaria. Among his publications in semiotics are ‘Text and Intelligence’, in Snow, Forest, Silence: The Finnish Tradition of Semioticsand Intellectual Effort and Linguistic Work(forthcoming). (KB) Bernard Burgoyne is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Centre for Psychoanalysis at Middlesex University. He is a Member of the European School of Psychoanalysis, and is the editor of Drawing the Souland (with Mary Sullivan) of The Klein–Lacan Dialogues. (BB) Rocco Capozzi is Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature, semiotics and literary theories at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Bernari. Tra fantasia e realtà, Scrittori, critici e industria culturale,LeggereIl Nome della Rosa e l’intertestualitàand is the editor of A Homage to Moravia(1992), Scrittori e le poetiche letterarie in ItaliaandReading Eco. (RC) Paul Cobleyis Reader in Communications at London Guildhall University. His publications include Introducing Semiotics (with Litza Jansz), The American ix

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